Last year, a non-profit organization in Britain called the “Earth Open Source” released many documented studies about health risks associated with glyphosate in Roundup such as birth defect, reproduction failure and cancer.

However glyphosate is approved and regulated by both FDA and EPA and in an interview the “Earth Open Source” mentioned that the approval of glyphosate by DFA and EPA is deeply unreliable and flawed.

Fact-checking about Roundup

-In many independent studies glyphosate has been related to birth defects, reproduction failure and deformities in laboratory animal. However the impact of glyphosate on humans is unclear since there hasn’t been any study about its side effect directly on humans.

In the last few decades, the FDA has approved many herbicides and toxic additives and has called them within safety limits. Jeffrey Smith, the producer of Genetic Roulette and an advocate on genetically modified foods said in an interview that “there is obviously a limit on how much poison can be tested on human beings since many independent studies have shown that feeding lab rats with Roundup has caused reproductive failure and birth defects”. And he also suggested that more independent studies are required in order to evaluate the exact toxicity of Roundup in our food supply.

-Monsanto has been marketing and calling Roundup “environmentally friendly”. In 1996 an attorney General in NY filed a lawsuit against Monsanto for calling Roundup safe. Monsanto paid the New York State 250,000 dollars to settle the lawsuit but didn’t admit any wrongdoing.

- 98% of soybeans in Argentina are GMOs. In 2009 200 million liters of glyphosate was sprayed in farms of Argentina. Although at the time GMO soy helped with Argentina’s economy and poor farmers, in several years the residents close to farms that were sprayed with Roundup started developing cancers and birth defects. Many farmers also lost their livestock and glyphosate caused malformation in chicken embryos.

-The study below is performed by Andres Carrasco, the director of the Laboratory of Molecular Embryology at the University of Buenos Aires about harms of Roundup. Interesting enough Andres Carrasco and his colleague faced a mob attack before his speech about the correlation between Round up and birth defects.

Andres Carrasco made it safely to his car, but his other colleagues were not that lucky and one of them got paralyzed and the other one was knocked unconscious.

In the following article, Andres Carrasco points out that the malfunction in chicken embryos by Roundup is similar to the birth defects of people in the regions that were sprayed by Roundup. He also suggests that glyphosate can be a real toxic and danger to human’s health.

However, in March 2012, Monsanto’s Roundup got banned in some regions of Argentina by a regional court in Santa Fe province after presenting a report on how both childhood cancer rate and birth defect had gone up nearly four times more after the use of Monsanto’s glyphosate.

-Here in the U.S Dr. Huber a plant pathology professor at University of Purdue discovered that Roundup was related to a mystery organism in lab rats that was causing miscarriages. He wrote a letter to the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack expressing his concern about this new pathogen that can have significant side effects to the health of humans and other species. He asked the secretary of agriculture to deregulate glyphosate until further tests are performed. However none of Dr. Huber’s letters were responded.

-In 2007 presidential election Obama promised to label GMO food, but not only that he hasn’t made any effort to label GMO foods, his policies have supported and promoted genetically modified foods by appointing Mike Taylor, Monsanto’s former VP and attorneyas the commissioner of FDA.
And also EPA has done nothing, despite all the promises that was made by EPA to evaluate the side effect of glyphosate on human’s health.
However, the EPA and FDA do not perform any independent studies and completely rely on the studies performed by giant agribusiness and chemical companies such as Dow, Syngenta, Monsanto, DuPont and BASF about the safety of a product.

So currently the food companies are self regulating many toxic foods and additives by calling them safe where the average consumer is poisoned every day by these carcinogens in our food supply. These big pesticide companies have declared a war on American freedom of choice by refusing to label GMO. If GMO was good, the food industry would have a big banner and label on foods called "GMO GREAT FOR YOUR HEALTH". But instead they try to hide GMO under differnt names including natural. GMO is the CREED of IGNORANCE and its INHERENT VIRTUE is ILLNESS and MISERY!